What would you do if a proposed LANDFILL was coming to your area

Selling probably won't be your best option since you'll have to disclose the proposal to any potential buyers, so your value will go out the window. Fighting it will consume your life, but I suppose it's worth a shot. The downside of living out in the sticks is that people like to stick their junk out in the sticks too.

Arrange to send all of the trash to China where all of the unwanted dirty, smelly, and noisy factories were sent.

Martin

I would rejoice and throw a celebration party.

When we had a landfill, the cost to dump was 3.00 a ton. They closed the landfill and now transport all the trash to another landfill in another county. The cost to dump is now 40.00 per ton, and goes up every year.

Count your blessings and welcome it.

It is just a landfill....people seem happy enough to make the trash but unhapy at the thought of having to deal with it...

And as Ken wrote,it depends upon what type of landfill it is.

Personally,I believe the owner of the land gets to decide what is to be done with it.

But I am odd.

I apoligize I didnt mean to give the impression that this is happening personally to us. We do however know of an area where someone we know is being effected by this. It also is where we had hoped to get some land for a homestead.

I would use it as a bargaining chip in buying land then.

Most modern members of society would be disgusted at the thought of a landfill being nearby....of course they would also think it horrible to have smelly farm animals too.

Landfills are a neccessity - if only EVERYONE would recycle that would certainly help - but nobody wants it in their backyard.

About 5 years ago, there was rumor of a company wanting to start a landfill around here, and the surrounding local people went crazy. They got organized, filed lawsuits (not sure where they got the money from), etc. I think what actually ended killing the landfill idea was that it was less than 5 miles from a small airport (planes hitting the birds that come around to landfills is what finally killed the plan.)

If it would have been a local landfill, (as in the local's garbage going in it) it might not have been so bad, but the majority of it was to come from New York.

Landfills can certainly bring in lots of money for the township / county it is in (which could cause the local elected officials to welcome it). Of course, you can bet the money will be viewed as a "lottery winning" and will be blown on new things "needed" rather than to reduce taxes!

Hope all goes well.

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Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania

"Everything happens for a reason."

Open a composting service. You will have more than your share of materials with yard waste, etc...

Well when they wanted to put a low level nuclear dump on the property next to us I was concerned then decided to ask for at least a quarter million for our property before I would sell out..
Well the NIMBY people defeated it at the township level so I'm still here..

Just a long story made short...

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There are protests nearly every time a landfill is proposed - anywhere. I would guess that about 99% of the time, the protests do NOT work. Trash has to go some place.

Its just that this is the first piece of property where everything has lined up ...cost, financing, NEIGHBORS are nice, Gorgeous property, so we are doing our research and as of right now we believe it could be as close as 1/4 of a mile. If someone would had ever said to me " Hey I got the perfect set up for a homestead buuuuut there is a landfill going up near by", we would of never given it a second thought. We are praying on it and getting the facts but would we be crazy to consider this?

Good luck with the fight to keep it out.

I live in Harper County, Kansas. We just went through this a while back with Waste Connections. They wanted to build the landfill here and ship Wichita's trash to it. Our county commissioners had already been negotiating with Waste Connections before the people of the county knew of any landfill deals. By that time, it was impossible to stop.

Most of the county's citizens felt truely betrayed by the commissioners that we had elected to run our community. I can't say with any certainty that they were bribed, but it almost felt like that may have been the case. We did try to organize to fight it, but it was too little too late. Once construction began, it was like trying to stop a train.

If you do a google search for Waste Connections Harper County, you will see several newspaper articles about it.

My husband and I don't live near it; we're probably about 20 miles from it. We really don't notice anything about it until we drive to Wichita. On any day of the week, you will pass several trucks hauling the trash down to the landfill. I'm glad that I don't live anywhere near it or the truck's route to it.

Hey Peanut,

The one thing that I have found out is that the trucks wont be going through our part of the county but on the other counties side. It is a road that joins the two counties together and they are putting the landfill in the middle of the road but the trucks will not be coming from our side to get to the fill.

When you drive by it can you smell anything or is there sound pollution?

Thanks.

My sis lives up by St. Louis and there were plans for a landfill in their area. which would have hauled tons and tons of bit city trash...huge group of local residents got together, actually hired geologists to show how it would affect ground water d/t the limestone formations under that area and another engineer to show how convoys of trucks coming out the narrow two land road into their proposed site would be a danger to all in the area. Basically an area without many hwys; mostly little poorly upkept county roads unless you get near a big city. they actually WON! DEE

Landfills eventually become high ground land. Some are built inside buildings and eventually buried to create vented mounds that produce methane gas thats collected and used commercially to recycle or dispose of other wastes.

Thi highest peak in Ohio is a former landfill.

Japan used global trash to create land mass and coral reefs.

Any of us who compost in half acre to acre areas of our land are realistically operating micro green waste landfills.

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O.k. our moment of INSANITY has passed (lol) My Lord had you ever told me we would consider such a thing....Well it is over. Thanks to wise family and friends. Your post were very appreciated. Now to slink off into a corner and blush.

I will however have a couple of more sane questions coming soon.